news24.com George Claassen, who is News24’s ombudsman, writes that he has not found any contraventions of the South African Press code around News24’s coverage of allegations surrounding the KwaSizabantu mission. In 2003, investigations into the sexual abuse of minors by Roman Catholic priests led to The Boston Globe being awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Public […]
Month: October 2020
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The Scandal Rocks South Africa
It is an October that no one who has ever been involved with “Mission KwaSizabantu” will forget. Because October 2020 is the month when finally something happens in the drama about the sect of Erlo Stegen in KwaZulu Natal. This is to owed to a team of former members of the Mission, who were able […]
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Der Skandal erschüttert Südafrika
Es ist ein Oktober, den niemand vergessen wird, der je mit der „Mission KwaSizabantu“ zu tun hatte. Denn der Oktober 2020 ist der Monat, in dem endlich etwas geschieht in dem Drama um die Sekte des deutschstämmigen Erlo Stegen in KwaZulu Natal. Zu verdanken ist dies einem Team ehemaliger Mitglieder der Mission, das das größte […]
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„They play God“
Helga Tontsch, the wife of the long-time head of Kwasizabantu Switzerland, Hans Koller, left the KSB mission in 2002. Below is a conversation with Mrs. Tontsch, which vividly describes what is actually behind Kwasizabantu. Mrs. Tontsch has meanwhile also divorced her husband. Question: Helga, you have left the Kwasizabantu group after many years of […]
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Der neue Lockdown bei KSB
6.10.2020 – Seit heute Morgen wurde ich von einigen Leuten gefragt, warum KSB einen neuen totalen Lockdown verhängt. Das ist, als würde man den Teufel fragen, warum er so böse ist. Aber ich habe vielleicht einige Erklärungen dafür. Im Leben in einer Sekte dreht sich alles um Kontrolle. Alles, sogar die Nachrichten, die in die […]
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The new lockdown at KSB
10/6/2020 – Since this morning I had a number of people asking me why KSB is experiencing a new total lockdown. That is like asking the Devil why he is so evil. But I might have some suggestions. Living in a cult is all about control. Everything, even the news coming into the cult as […]
‘They beat children into obedience’ By Lwandile Bhengu – 06 October 2020 – 15:46 Former KwaSizabantu mission preacher Pieter Becker gives evidence at a hearing in Durban on Tuesday Image: Lwandile Bhengu A former pastor at the KwaSizabantu mission broke down on Tuesday as he told the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the […]
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Albert Pilon’s Scrutiny of Kwasizabantu
Article in Luce Verbi by Prof. P.A. Rousseau, department of Theology Potschefstroom. Book review
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Questions that need to be asked
News24 publishes 13 critical questions to KwaSizabantu / Transparency urged Peet Botha writes in a letter to the editors of News24 that there are several questions that need to be answered by KwaSizabantu after the revelations of the mission through various media. News 24 published the letter on October 5, 2020 in its original wording. […]
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Fragen, die gestellt werden müssen
News24 veröffentlicht 13 kritische Fragen an KwaSizabantu / Transparenz angemahnt Peet Botha schreibt in einem Brief an die Herausgeber von News24, dass es mehrere Fragen gibt, die von KwaSizabantu nach den Enthüllungen der Mission durch verschiedene Medien beantwortet werden müssen. News 24 veröffentlichte den Brief am 5.Oktober 2020 im Wortlaut. Die Enthüllungen bezüglich der KwaSizabantu-Mission (KSB) […]